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Considering switching to Linux, but I have many questions.
Gaming - I enjoy gaming and want a Distro that will let me play most games. I have read that keeping nVidia drivers up to date can be (was?) a problem. I currently use steam for 99% of my gaming, I’m aware steam is porting a lot for SteamOS, but what are the limitations of this? Will I have to wait for a port before I can play a new game? Are there stability issues?
I’ve developed a lot of pretty basic macros for excel in Visual Basic, I’m not a programmer by any means, but I can write some algorithms to do QoL coding. Is making the switch to open office seamless? Will my .xlsx docs incur formatting issues? Will my macros translate to whatever editor is used in open office? Does open office use the same codes for cell functions? Are there statistic package add-ons like with excel? Essentially, I’m asking how much work is ahead of me if I make this switch?
I do enjoy the old version of outlook and work with many people who use outlook calendars for scheduling. Is there a similar program that will work with the same functionality on their end? (E.g. a mail client that will allow me to accept calendar invites from others and confirm it on both ends?).
I am familiar with Visual Studio and use it as my IDE for very basic programming (I like to tinker with automating certain tasks in games, again by no means a programmer). Is there an equivalent FOSS version that would have a low learning curve coming from Microsoft’s IDE?
Steam has a compatibility layer called Proton, when enabled you can play games designed to run on Windows. You can check ProtonDB to see if a game runs or you can just check by yourself.
Games that use anticheat are the most prone to not work on Linux.
Also, you don't have to move to Linux cold turkey. You can try dual boot and adapt your workflow at your own pace. GL 🙂
I can tell you macros in Excel will more than likely not transfer. As for formatting, 50/50 depending on how in-depth it is. I would advise dual booting/vm for Excel. There just is no other program as powerful. I'm not saying Libre or others can't do what your looking to do, but more than likely would need a rebuild to get there.
Agree for Excel. An alternative can be to use winapps which allow to run excel via docker (or podman) and open windows app same as if there were natively installed.
Gaming on Linux is great, steam isn't porting games for SteamOS, instead they released Proton which allows you to play just about every Windows game without issue.
I don't know about LibreOffice supporting Excel Macros, I'd assume not.
There are many good mail programs, but I think only one that properly integrates with Microsoft's cloud stuff.
Visual Studio straight up runs on Linux, it should be familiar.
Try it out and see if you get your system how you want it 😀
Gaming - I enjoy gaming and want a Distro that will let me play most games. I have read that keeping nVidia drivers up to date can be (was?) a problem. I currently use steam for 99% of my gaming, I’m aware steam is porting a lot for SteamOS, but what are the limitations of this? Will I have to wait for a port before I can play a new game? Are there stability issues?
For gaming you should keep in mind that you want a distro with decently new packages to avoid issues with Nvidia & also to have the correct drivers for some titles: fedora is good for a strong base, although I heard they are doing away with there x86 libraries... I prefer endeavor os, but you will at very least need to learn to use pacman and yay, but they aren't hard to understand if you have basic programming experience. You should also know that almost all games that are not supported on Linux nowadays are either really new, like launch day new, or they rely on an invasive anti cheat: are we anti cheat yet & proton db should give you a decent idea if your library is compatible.
I’ve developed a lot of pretty basic macros for excel in Visual Basic, I’m not a programmer by any means, but I can write some algorithms to do QoL coding. Is making the switch to open office seamless? Will my .xlsx docs incur formatting issues? Will my macros translate to whatever editor is used in open office? Does open office use the same codes for cell functions? Are there statistic package add-ons like with excel? Essentially, I’m asking how much work is ahead of me if I make this switch?
I don't have nearly enough experience with your second point, my only thoughts are that you should be looking into libre office - it's the most mature in my eyes, and open office has made a lot of questionable decisions recently. Also as a general rule, I would say there is about an equivalent amount of compatibility between the oss alternatives and the different versions of the Ms office suite, it will be noticeable, but so long as you don't live and die by formatting, it will just be mildly inconvenient.
I do enjoy the old version of outlook and work with many people who use outlook calendars for scheduling. Is there a similar program that will work with the same functionality on their end? (E.g. a mail client that will allow me to accept calendar invites from others and confirm it on both ends?).
I believe you are looking for proton, they are the oss answer to the Ms and Google suites, I don't know if you will have quite the amount of compatibility you want between people, but if that's important just use the web versions of your preferred suite.
I am familiar with Visual Studio and use it as my IDE for very basic programming (I like to tinker with automating certain tasks in games, again by no means a programmer). Is there an equivalent FOSS version that would have a low learning curve coming from Microsoft’s IDE?
Vs code is almost entirely open source, as such, there is a project called vs codium which takes the publicly available vs code source code and keeps it fully open source, if you like the visual studio program you will hardly notice a difference.
The thing with Office is Microsoft has worked hard to keep it's monopoly. Office is it's cash cow and so they avoid standards deliberately to make it harder to move off. There are plenty of alternatives, lots of email software, etc. It's just about taking your time and moving bit by bit. You can install LibreOffice and Mozilla Thunderbird on Windows to try them out. LibreOffice being what replaced open office.
Protondb - info about current state and playability of almost any game on Steam driven by community.
AFAIK many calendar apps use CalDAV protocol which is quite universal. So basically any compatible with CavDAV protocol app (Thunderbird, Evolution) will work just fine.
VS Code + some extensions - yes, I know that it is not an IDE. I use it for game development on Unity (C#) and it makes job done.
I would say, instead of trying to 100% switch over, instead dip a toe in. Dual boot, or run a seperate system as linux first. Slowly grow into it, and then if in a few years, it feels feasible, put it on as your main and have your windows system as the back up. Then maybe eventually you won't need/want a back up at some point.
I can speak to a few of your questions. I've been fully on Linux, both my laptop and gaming PC for two years now.
Gaming - I use Steam for all of my games, and have had few issues. Steam uses Proton to allow non-native games to run, and it happens all within the Steam client. New Proton versions update within Steam just like your games. I've run across a few games that wouldn't launch or would CTD, but those are few and far between and similar to my experience in Windows.
Sample of games I've played without issue: * Star Wars Jedi: Survivor * Horizon: Forbidden West * Helldivers 2 * Red Dead Redemption 2 * Dwarf Fortress * Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 * Fallout: New Vegas * Deep Rock Galactic * Sea of Stars * Factorio
I have an Nvidia 3080Ti and use the proprietary Nvidia drivers. From what I recall, the install was painless and I haven't had driver issues.
OpenOffice - I use LibreOffice, because to my understanding it is actively maintained unlike OpenOffice, and I haven't had any issues casually using it to view documents.
I use Thunderbird for my mail client and haven't had any issues setting it up or using basic functionality. It works just as well as it did under Windows.
I installed VS Code or one of the foss alternatives, can't remember which, and haven't had issues with it.
TL;DR that's really my experience with everything in Linux. Some things are a learning curve, but most stuff just works. I'm also not a tinkerer. I just wanted an OS that works and stays out of my way and Linux has been great for that.
Gaming on Linux is nearly effortless within the Steam ecosystem. Outside if that, it requires a little more technical proficiency and a willingness or excitement for learning. Lutris, Heroic, and Bottles are all tools that can help you run non-Steam Windows software on Linux. Your mileage WILL vary depending on what you want to run. Non-games are very hit-and-miss.
Use LibreOffice, not OpenOffice. Formulas should work natively, but macros may need to be reimplemented since LibreOffice Calc uses a different “Basic” than Excel.
That depends on what you mean by “Outlook”. I’d wager most Linux users automatically pick Thunderbird, which is a fairly basic mail client compared to the MS Office version of Outlook. It is comparable to the lightweight built-in Windows Outlook, though. I prefer Evolution as my mail client, which is closer to Apple Mail or Windows Outlook. Try some things out and see what you like.
VSCode and VSCodium are readily available FOSS editors. There is also Kate, which comes with many KDE-based distros. Jetbrains IDEs work very well on Linux, whether you use free community, free non-commercial, or paid versions.
Gaming - go to protondb.com and look for the games you at regularly. If something g you at isn't supported (mostly specific online multiplayer games) then you're out of luck. Most games work seamlessly.
Watch some YouTube videos about people showing how to install Nvidia drivers to get an idea of how complicated it is.
I do enjoy the old version of outlook and work with many people who use outlook calendars for scheduling. Is there a similar program that will work with the same functionality on their end? (E.g. a mail client that will allow me to accept calendar invites from others and confirm it on both ends?).
I believe Thunderbird is still the most widely supported local mail client. (Corrections welcome, but last time I used a non-webmail email client, it seemed the most popular.) I have found Thunderbird is more stable and reliable on Linux than on Windows or Mac. And thunderbird seems to intentionally mimic older versions of outlook.
For any non-mircrosoft email provider, Thunderbird seems to usually be what the mail provider tests with, if they support non-web email access.
If using Microsoft as your email provider, I think Microsoft occasionally sabotages Thunderbird intentionally. I have not had a good experience, with this combination.
But Outlook(.com) works fine and is fully featured, in a browser on any version of Linux.
I am familiar with Visual Studio and use it as my IDE for very basic programming (I like to tinker with automating certain tasks in games, again by no means a programmer). Is there an equivalent FOSS version that would have a low learning curve coming from Microsoft’s IDE?
VSCode is the heir-apparent to Visual Studio.
It is FOSS (mostly). To get the pure FOSS version, look for VSCodium, instead. Both run natively on Linux, were destined to mimic Visual Studio, but applying some usability lessons learned.
In my opinion, the feature set is equivalent, except some cases VSCode/VSCodium is dramatically better.
I used to run Visual Studio and VSCodium side by side, but I haven't been tempted to open Visual Studio in several years.
Lots of folks mentioning VSCode as the alternate to VS, but it is very much not that. VS is an IDE, VSCode is a text editor that just has a big plugin community. Do not expect a low learning curve. The VS alternative that's an actual IDE, and does have a low learning curve, is JetBrains Rider. Unfortunately it is neither F nor OSS.
On the machine I used Nvidia on, I ran Linux Mint and used that distro's driver manager. It was fairly straightforward. I found an appropriate time to build a new machine and I'm now a Ryzen/Radeon kind of guy.
In broad strokes, what Valve has done for Linux gaming is build a compatibility layer that translates the game's calls for Windows systems into those that Linux can understand, especially translating DirectX API calls to Vulkan. So, for the most part, Windows games now "just run." You do not need to wait for a game to be ported to Linux, and in fact many just simply aren't anymore; Valve's instructions are to target Windows and let Proton handle Linux gamers. The one place you'll find issues are some games that use kernel level anti-cheat, a technology that can work on Linux, but many studios choose not to let it.
I don't know if a conversion to a FOSS office suite (I would recommend LibreOffice or possibly OnlyOffice) will be 100% seamless, the most trouble I had with LibreOffice was collaborating with others. An MLA formatted essay made in LOWriter may translate fine, powerpoint presentations and spreadsheets might be a little wonky.
The cool thing about FOSS apps is you don't have to have Linux to give them a try. You can install LibreOffice in Windows and try it out yourself.
I don't think VisualStudio is available for Linux; their text editor VSCode and a "we built the parts they opened" called VSCodium are.
Linux is an extremely programmer friendly environment; you'll find a lot of IDEs available. Your typical Linux distro ships with Python and Perl interpreters among others just built right in, along with GCC of course. I've messed around with the Godot game engine, along with Arduino, though these days if I'm going to do much programming I'm going to do it in Python, including for microcontrollers. These days I've somewhat standardized on ESP32s running MicroPython.
OpenOffice has seen essentially no development since 2011, when the trademark got transferred to Oracle after they bought Sun Microsystems.
The project got forked into LibreOffice to dodge the trademark issue, but it's the same devs, practically the same project, but now under a non-profit organization. Well, and with 14 more years of development.
So, use LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice. It will most likely come pre-installed on whichever Linux distro you go with. But you can also try it out on Windows beforehand, if you have concerns.
Just a headsup incase you try it on windows 11 before you do on linux:
LibreOffice, out of the box, is slow and buggy sometimes on windows 11 and the user interface doesn't look as smooth as on linux. You might have to tweak some graphics settings to bearable.
LibreOffice looks and works significantly better on Linux.
Ive personally not encountered any of the issues listed above for Libreoffice on Windows, it runs just as well on my win10 system as it does my Linux system (dual boot). That said, I have yet to try it out on Win11 amd if I do, it will be virtualized vs running on bare metal.
To me it looks you are pretty deep in MS ecosystem. The easiest to switch to Linux are developers because development on Windows sucks and casual users because they depend only on their web browser. Since you are both a gamer and deep in MS office suite it will be very hard because its completley different ecosystem.
My proposal: recreate your environment in VM and switch on linux host with that same setup. And then try get step by step over a year outside of that VM.
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Well, maybe it was a "perfect" mission in that they perfectly hit the spots that used to have fissile material but don't anymore because there be a snitch
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@aral Yes, if you're ok working within the constraints. Some features are just missing like suspend, and you've got the very small screen and ortholinear keyboard. I think it's a great niche device, very capable for a certain type of person
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That randomly reminds me of a random post I saw on that other site years ago, goes something like this...
'Get 4 pigs, and paint them with numbers 1, 2, 3, and 5. Then let them loose in Walmart, and after they catch those 4, sit back and watch them look for #4...'
I miss working the pit. No customer interaction, I knew what filter and where as the car rolled in, and it was smooth. I do not miss the little burns, and being covered in oil and sweat, and the occasional smashed hand from the diff plate bolt suddenly coming loose.
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Since I already have laurenweinstein.org (obviously) and youtube.com/laurenweinstein (for many years) anything else is just spinning wheels unnecessarily. Been there. Done that.
One more thing: While checking out your YT channels I discovered that recording of Ray Bradbury but unfortunately the audio consists just of a lot of what sounds like hiccups to me. Tried two different browsers.. same thing
@darkobserver It appears that YouTube trashed it during one of their reencoding cycles at some point. I haven't played it recently but it always played fine for me, and you can see there are comments on there from people who listened to it obviously OK over the years.
This pisses me off and might only be the tip of the iceberg regarding ruined uploads especially of older videos. I've taken it private for now.
I'm looking into this issue via my own contacts at G.
@darkobserver I'm in discussion with YT engineering about this. Something is clearly amiss, and we don't know what yet, though I had a clue that may bear fruit. Should be more action on this next week. Thanks again for pointing it out.
@darkobserver YT just informed me that they were able to restore the audio. It sounds fine and I've moved the video back to public. I don't yet know (and may never know in detail) how the audio was damaged, but all's well that ends well as far as this video is concerned. Thanks again, and enjoy! -L
@darkobserver I actually didn't have to reupload or do anything except coordinate with them for tests as they dug into the issue. They fixed the video in-place. The hope is that the procedure can be used with any other videos in the corpus found to have the same problem, if any.
precision but only because i was revisiting ok computer yesterday and in awe of how good the low end on that album sounds 😀 with respect to hardware... i use a g&l asat bass and they come with these giant chunky bridges that really augment the sustain. i would personally look for a big heavy bridge.
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We have been made aware that this person has made an appearance at two different anti-fascist events this month.
He made an appearance at #Northland during an anti-fascist rally where by he attempted to disrupt the action unsuccessfully. He attempted to assault an anti-fascist but was unable to move them with his feeble attempt at a shove before he was whisked away by his mates in blue.
Teaches a bunch of subjects and helps develop problem-solving skills; its soundtrack has zero right to be so bitchin' but it is
Was asking about this today because I couldnt remember the name or franchise and Lemmy came thru, reuniting me with yet another thing I could remember sound of but not the content or name, long thought lost to the sands of time
Bush Sr. was the first US President of my lifetime to go to war in the Middle East. He was the fifth Republican President of my lifetime, after Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, and Reagan.
The following is based on lists in Wikipedia. It is a not-quite-up-to-date list of conflicts, some of them all-out wars, that the USA has been involved in.
George Washington Northwest Indian War American - Algerian War John Adams Quasi-War Thomas Jefferson First Barbary War James Madison Tecumseh's War U.S. Annexation of the Republic of West Florida Patriot War (Florida) War of 1812 Creek War Nuku Hiva Campaign Second Barbary War James Monroe U.S. Conquest of the Republic of the Floridas during the Amelia Island Affair First Seminole War Arikara War John Quincy Adams Aegean Sea anti-piracy operations of the United States Winnebago War Andrew Jackson First Sumatran Expedition Black Hawk War Andrew Jackson through John Tyler Second Seminole War Andrew Jackson through Ulysses S. Grant Texas Comanche Wars Martin Van Buren Patriot War Second Sumatran Expedition Bombardment of Upolu John Tyler Battle of Drummond's Island Ivory Coast Expedition Capture of Monterey James K. Polk Mexican–American War James K. Polk through Franklin Pierce Cayuse War Polk through Coolidge Apache Wars Polk through Andrew Johnson Navajo Wars Millard Fillmore Johanna Expedition Franklin Pierce Battle of Muddy Flat Pierce through Lincoln Bleeding Kansas Franklin Pierce Bombardment of Greytown Battle of Ty-ho Bay Rogue River Wars Puget Sound War Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan Third Seminole War Yakima War Second Opium War James Buchanan Utah War Reform War Pig War John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry First and Second Cortina War Paiute War Abraham Lincoln American Civil War Bombardment of Qui Nhơn Lincoln through Grant Yavapai Wars 1st Battle of Shimonoseki Straits and the following Shimonoseki campaign Colorado War Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson Snake War Andrew Johnson Powder River War Red Cloud's War Formosa Expedition Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant Comanche Campaign Ulysses S. Grant United States expedition to Korea Modoc War Red River War Las Cuevas War Great Sioux War of 1876 Buffalo Hunters' War Rutherford B. Hayes Nez Perce War Bannock War Cheyenne War Sheepeater Indian War Victorio's War White River War Chester A. Arthur Egyptian Expedition Grover Cleveland Crow War Benjamin Harrison Ghost Dance War Garza War Grover Cleveland through Woodrow Wilson Yaqui Wars William McKinley Second Samoan Civil War Spanish–American War Philippine–American War William McKinley through Woodrow Wilson Moro Rebellion William McKinley Boxer Rebellion Theodore Roosevelt through Calvin Coolidge Crazy Snake's War William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson Mexican Border War William Howard Taft Little Race War William Howard Taft through Herbert Hoover United States occupation of Nicaragua Woodrow Wilson Bluff War United States occupation of Veracruz Woodrow Wilson through Franklin D. Roosevelt United States occupation of Haiti Woodrow Wilson through Calvin Coolidge United States occupation of the Dominican Republic Woodrow Wilson World War I Russian Civil War Warren G. Harding Posey War Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman World War II Harry S. Truman Operation Beleaguer Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower Puerto Rican Nationalist Party insurgency Korean War Dwight D. Eisenhower through Gerald Ford Vietnam War Laotian Civil War Dwight D. Eisenhower Permesta Rebellion Lebanon crisis John F. Kennedy Bay of Pigs Invasion Lyndon B. Johnson Operation Dragon Rouge Dominican Civil War Ñancahuazú Guerrilla Campaign Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon Korean DMZ Conflict Lyndon B. Johnson through Gerald Ford Cambodian Civil War Jimmy Carter Operation Eagle Claw Ronald Reagan Multinational intervention in Lebanon United States invasion of Grenada Bombing of Libya Tanker War George H. W. Bush United States invasion of Panama Gulf War George H. W. Bush through George W. Bush Iraqi No-Fly Zone Enforcement Operations George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton First U.S. Intervention in the Somali Civil War Bosnian War and Croatian War Bill Clinton Intervention in Haiti Kosovo War George W. Bush through Joe Biden War in Afghanistan George W. Bush through Donald Trump US intervention in Yemen Operation Freedom Eagle US intervention in the War in North-West Pakistan Second US Intervention in the Somali Civil War (also Joe Biden) George W. Bush and Barack Obama Iraq War Barack Obama Operation Ocean Shield International intervention in Libya Barack Obama and Donald Trump Operation Observant Compass Barack Obama through Joe Biden US-led intervention in Iraq Barack Obama through second Donald Trump US intervention in the Syrian civil war
The guy in charge of sending masked men to kidnap people keeps going on TV saying how much he loves sending masked men to kidnap people and that if any politicians stop his masked men from kidnapping people he will kidnap those politicians, is now saying that he is afraid that masked men will kidnap him.
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"When the author of a book states that all sales of those books will contribute to an anti-trans fund, the only way we can choose not to participate is by not selling the books any longer. "
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Hey there! Ever wondered why some companies hire a company secretary while others don't? It's all about weighing the costs against the benefits. Let's break it down and see if hiring secretarial services is worth it for businesses.
What Does a Company Secretary Do?
Before we dive into the costs and benefits, let's quickly recap what a company secretary does. These professionals handle a bunch of important tasks like: - Making sure the company follows all the legal rules - Keeping important company records - Organizing meetings for the board of directors - Communicating with shareholders
Basically, they're like the backstage crew that keeps the whole show running smoothly!
The Costs of Hiring a Company Secretary
Now, let's talk money. Hiring a company secretary isn't cheap, but the costs can vary depending on a few factors: Salary or Service Fees If a company hires a full-time company secretary, they'll need to pay a salary. According to some job websites, the average salary for a company secretary in the U.S. is around $50,000 to $80,000 per year. That's a pretty big chunk of change!
Alternatively, some businesses use external secretarial services. These might charge by the hour or have a monthly fee. While this can be cheaper than a full-time salary, it can still add up.
Training and Development Company secretaries need to stay up-to-date with changing laws and regulations. This means companies might need to pay for ongoing training and professional development. It's like paying for extra classes to keep your company secretary at the top of their game.
Technology and Resources To do their job effectively, a company secretary might need special software or access to legal resources. These tools can be expensive, adding to the overall cost of secretarial services.
The Benefits of Hiring a Company Secretary
Now for the fun part - what do companies get in return for all this investment? Turns out, quite a lot! Legal Compliance One of the biggest benefits of having a company secretary is staying on the right side of the law. They make sure the company follows all the rules and regulations. This can save the company from getting hit with hefty fines or legal troubles down the road. It's like having a personal referee making sure your company plays by the rules!
Time Savings for Management By handling all the paperwork and administrative tasks, a company secretary frees up time for the company's leaders. This means the big bosses can focus on growing the business instead of getting bogged down in paperwork. It's like having someone do your homework so you can focus on the fun school projects!
Improved Corporate Governance A good company secretary helps keep the company running smoothly and ethically. They make sure important decisions are made properly and that everyone in the company is held accountable. This can lead to better decision-making and a stronger company overall.
Better Investor Relations Company secretaries often handle communication with shareholders. By keeping investors informed and happy, they can help the company maintain good relationships with the people who own parts of the business. Happy investors can mean more money for the company to grow!
Risk Management By staying on top of legal requirements and keeping good records, a company secretary can help identify and manage risks before they become big problems. It's like having a early warning system for potential issues.
Is It Worth It?
So, is hiring a company secretary or using secretarial services worth the cost? For many companies, especially larger ones or those in complex industries, the answer is a big yes! The benefits of staying legally compliant, saving time, and improving company operations often outweigh the costs.
However, for smaller companies or startups, it might not make sense to hire a full-time company secretary right away. They might use part-time secretarial services or have another employee handle some of the tasks until the company grows bigger.
Conclusion
In the end, whether to hire a company secretary comes down to each company's specific needs and resources. While it can be a significant expense, the benefits of having professional secretarial services can be huge. From keeping the company out of legal trouble to improving overall operations, a good company secretary can be worth their weight in gold (or at least in paperwork)!
So next time you hear about a company hiring a secretary, you'll know there's a lot more to it than just answering phones. It's a strategic decision that can have a big impact on a company's success!
Corporate secretarial services are an integral part of business management and compliance, particularly in the context of corporate secretarial services in Singapore.
Great insight! A cost-benefit analysis really highlights how hiring company secretary services can save time, ensure compliance, and reduce risk. While there’s an upfront cost, the long-term efficiency and legal peace of mind often outweigh the expense—especially for growing businesses!“ интернет казино
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When people ask me questions about my heritage, history, values or political opinions I don’t automatically assume they hate me and everyone with any association to me.
And I feel like it would be odd if I did get offended about that wouldn’t it?
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Only Trump admitting that the Iranian missile attack on the American Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar was pre-arranged with Tehran to ensure no casualties. Nothing to see here, move along...
In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"
If "creative and innovative work" is to be done by "AI" and can allegedly only really be done on-site, can we require the neural networks to run on-premise rather than in the cloud? 🤔
While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a …
Ye Gods. @pluralistic goes straight to the heart: advances in surveillance technology make it possible for the oligarchs to push our society deeper into democratic debt. Until... What? 100 families eat UK the world's entire wealth? The guillotines come out?
The "dictator's dilemma" pits a dictator's desire to create social stability by censoring public communications in order to prevent the spread of anti-regime messages with the dictator's need to know whether powerful elites are becoming restless and plotting a coup:
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My garden has 3 core functions. Recreation and play, Growing vegetables and fruits, and givin nature more room. The so called Controlled Wildernes. I Love to see all the different species the are coming by. But i always want to make it better, especially the combination of space for family and nature. Ive got inspired by the book The Garden Jungle from Dave Goulson. It just gave me more ideas and motivation to protect the smal animals, and make the garden usefull for more. But what about you? What books, articles, documentary etc, did inspire or would give me some ideas to let nature have more space in af garden?
I wouldn't say any book, but the news. Our planet is failing quickly, with no concerted effort to stop it. My zone has had massive collapses in insect and wildlife year over year, and I aim to help combat that as much as possible by planting native plants, providing extra fruit and vegetables for the wildlife (I keep a decoy garden for them), and doing it all as resource conscious as possible. Nothing but good things can come from having even a few native flowering plants around for bees and hummingbirds, and going a bit of an extra mile to compost to keep the good insects that contribute to that process happy and expanding their colonies.
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter.
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in reply to Blue_Morpho • • •blackjam_alex
in reply to exothermic • • •Steam has a compatibility layer called Proton, when enabled you can play games designed to run on Windows. You can check ProtonDB to see if a game runs or you can just check by yourself.
Games that use anticheat are the most prone to not work on Linux.
Also, you don't have to move to Linux cold turkey. You can try dual boot and adapt your workflow at your own pace. GL 🙂
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in reply to exothermic • • •Matth78
in reply to Gerudo • • •JTskulk
in reply to exothermic • • •Gaming on Linux is great, steam isn't porting games for SteamOS, instead they released Proton which allows you to play just about every Windows game without issue.
I don't know about LibreOffice supporting Excel Macros, I'd assume not.
There are many good mail programs, but I think only one that properly integrates with Microsoft's cloud stuff.
Visual Studio straight up runs on Linux, it should be familiar.
Try it out and see if you get your system how you want it 😀
port443
in reply to exothermic • • •Attacker94
in reply to exothermic • • •For gaming you should keep in mind that you want a distro with decently new packages to avoid issues with Nvidia & also to have the correct drivers for some titles: fedora is good for a strong base, although I heard they are doing away with there x86 libraries... I prefer endeavor os, but you will at very least need to learn to use pacman and yay, but they aren't hard to understand if you have basic programming experience. You should also know that almost all games that are not supported on Linux nowadays are either really new, like launch day new, or they rely on an invasive anti cheat: are we anti cheat yet & proton db should give you a decent idea if your library is compatible.
I don't have nearly enough experience with your second point, my only thoughts are that you should be looking into libre office - it's the most mature in my eyes, and open office has made a lot of questionable decisions recently. Also as a general rule, I would say there is about an equivalent amount of compatibility between the oss alternatives and the different versions of the Ms office suite, it will be noticeable, but so long as you don't live and die by formatting, it will just be mildly inconvenient.
I believe you are looking for proton, they are the oss answer to the Ms and Google suites, I don't know if you will have quite the amount of compatibility you want between people, but if that's important just use the web versions of your preferred suite.
Vs code is almost entirely open source, as such, there is a project called vs codium which takes the publicly available vs code source code and keeps it fully open source, if you like the visual studio program you will hardly notice a difference.
KiwiTB
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in reply to exothermic • • •tedd_deireadh
in reply to exothermic • • •I can speak to a few of your questions. I've been fully on Linux, both my laptop and gaming PC for two years now.
Sample of games I've played without issue:
* Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
* Horizon: Forbidden West
* Helldivers 2
* Red Dead Redemption 2
* Dwarf Fortress
* Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
* Fallout: New Vegas
* Deep Rock Galactic
* Sea of Stars
* Factorio
I have an Nvidia 3080Ti and use the proprietary Nvidia drivers. From what I recall, the install was painless and I haven't had driver issues.
TL;DR that's really my experience with everything in Linux. Some things are a learning curve, but most stuff just works. I'm also not a tinkerer. I just wanted an OS that works and stays out of my way and Linux has been great for that.
BlameTheAntifa
in reply to exothermic • • •cRazi_man
in reply to exothermic • • •Gaming - go to protondb.com and look for the games you at regularly. If something g you at isn't supported (mostly specific online multiplayer games) then you're out of luck. Most games work seamlessly.
Watch some YouTube videos about people showing how to install Nvidia drivers to get an idea of how complicated it is.
pinball_wizard
in reply to exothermic • • •I believe Thunderbird is still the most widely supported local mail client. (Corrections welcome, but last time I used a non-webmail email client, it seemed the most popular.) I have found Thunderbird is more stable and reliable on Linux than on Windows or Mac. And thunderbird seems to intentionally mimic older versions of outlook.
For any non-mircrosoft email provider, Thunderbird seems to usually be what the mail provider tests with, if they support non-web email access.
If using Microsoft as your email provider, I think Microsoft occasionally sabotages Thunderbird intentionally. I have not had a good experience, with this combination.
But Outlook(.com) works fine and is fully featured, in a browser on any version of Linux.
pinball_wizard
in reply to exothermic • • •VSCode is the heir-apparent to Visual Studio.
It is FOSS (mostly). To get the pure FOSS version, look for VSCodium, instead. Both run natively on Linux, were destined to mimic Visual Studio, but applying some usability lessons learned.
In my opinion, the feature set is equivalent, except some cases VSCode/VSCodium is dramatically better.
I used to run Visual Studio and VSCodium side by side, but I haven't been tempted to open Visual Studio in several years.
JakenVeina
in reply to exothermic • • •Captain Aggravated
in reply to exothermic • • •#Gaming
On the machine I used Nvidia on, I ran Linux Mint and used that distro's driver manager. It was fairly straightforward. I found an appropriate time to build a new machine and I'm now a Ryzen/Radeon kind of guy.
In broad strokes, what Valve has done for Linux gaming is build a compatibility layer that translates the game's calls for Windows systems into those that Linux can understand, especially translating DirectX API calls to Vulkan. So, for the most part, Windows games now "just run." You do not need to wait for a game to be ported to Linux, and in fact many just simply aren't anymore; Valve's instructions are to target Windows and let Proton handle Linux gamers. The one place you'll find issues are some games that use kernel level anti-cheat, a technology that can work on Linux, but many studios choose not to let it.
#Excel/macros
I don't know if a conversion to a FOSS office suite (I would recommend LibreOffice or possibly OnlyOffice) will be 100% seamless, the most trouble I had with LibreOffice was collaborating with others. An MLA formatted essay made in LOWriter may translate fine, powerpoint presentations and spreadsheets might be a little wonky.
The cool thing about FOSS apps is you don't have to have Linux to give them a try. You can install LibreOffice in Windows and try it out yourself.
#Outlook
I don't know a damn thing about Outlook. There are several email clients available for Linux, which I don't use, so, I can't really help you here.
#Programming IDEs
I don't think VisualStudio is available for Linux; their text editor VSCode and a "we built the parts they opened" called VSCodium are.
Linux is an extremely programmer friendly environment; you'll find a lot of IDEs available. Your typical Linux distro ships with Python and Perl interpreters among others just built right in, along with GCC of course. I've messed around with the Godot game engine, along with Arduino, though these days if I'm going to do much programming I'm going to do it in Python, including for microcontrollers. These days I've somewhat standardized on ESP32s running MicroPython.
Ephera
in reply to exothermic • • •OpenOffice has seen essentially no development since 2011, when the trademark got transferred to Oracle after they bought Sun Microsystems.
The project got forked into LibreOffice to dodge the trademark issue, but it's the same devs, practically the same project, but now under a non-profit organization. Well, and with 14 more years of development.
So, use LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice. It will most likely come pre-installed on whichever Linux distro you go with. But you can also try it out on Windows beforehand, if you have concerns.
Lazycog
in reply to Ephera • • •Just a headsup incase you try it on windows 11 before you do on linux:
LibreOffice, out of the box, is slow and buggy sometimes on windows 11 and the user interface doesn't look as smooth as on linux. You might have to tweak some graphics settings to bearable.
LibreOffice looks and works significantly better on Linux.
happy_wheels
in reply to Lazycog • • •Lazycog
in reply to happy_wheels • • •Glad to it's been working fine on win10!
I have encountered the same issues as above on multiple different devices running win11 and that's why I wanted to make a heads-up.
Two separate linux installations, in the otherhand, had no issues at all running libreoffice.
happy_wheels
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in reply to happy_wheels • • •majster
in reply to exothermic • • •To me it looks you are pretty deep in MS ecosystem. The easiest to switch to Linux are developers because development on Windows sucks and casual users because they depend only on their web browser. Since you are both a gamer and deep in MS office suite it will be very hard because its completley different ecosystem.
My proposal: recreate your environment in VM and switch on linux host with that same setup. And then try get step by step over a year outside of that VM.